At camp, he gave a lecture about how exercise builds not only your muscles, but also your brain! Exercise juices up your hippocampus and helps to actually build new brain cells in parts of your brain involved with learning and memory.
Tony's talk got me interested in the physiological effects of exercise. How it does what it does to keep us healthy and young!
When I met Tony again at the first Beachbody Coaches Summit a while back, I gave him a copy of a new book that had just come out called Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by Harvard psychiatrist John Ratey.
Apparently he read it. Here is a picture sent to me by fellow coach Judy Z.
I posted it on my facebook page today, and was happy to have Tony Horton, the X-man himself respond!
"Thanks Kevin! Spark changed the way I look at cardio fitness forever."
It is great to hear that if a small way, I was able to give back to a person who has made such a profound impact on my life.
Kevin
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